Asier Mendizabal

Eslabones (sintagmático y paradigmático), 2021
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Chestnut wood
Unique
Tabakalera, 2021
Plateau (sintagmático y paradigmático), 2021
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Aluminium
Unique
Tabakalera, 2021
Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
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Photo: Museo Oteiza
Limbo (Diagonal), 2016
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Rubber and iron plate
18 x 41 x 40 cm
Unique
Photo: Asier Mendizabal
Limbo (Lima), 2016
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Rubber and iron plate
8 x 40 x 60 cm
Unique
Photo: Asier Mendizabal
Incurvar, 2018
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Two digital prints
Framed: 79 x 119 x 4 cm each. Ed. 1 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Untitled (Benta Handi), 2009
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Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
Photo: Museo Oteiza
Agoramaquia (Versión nº1), 2014
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Two rubber plates and iron structure
174 x 102 cm / 230 x 139 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Agoramaquia (Versión nº2), 2014
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Two rubber plates and iron structure
174 x 102 cm / 230 x 139 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro Ivo
Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro Ivo
Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro Ivo
Installation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
Framed: 92 x 74 x 3 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Installation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Sin título (cesta 3), 2015
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Concrete
46 x 21 x 21 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Stilfragen (crania), 2016
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Concrete
20 x 20 x 20 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Sin título (cesta 2), 2015
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Concrete
15 x 33 x 33 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Installation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
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Photo: MAPCA
Installation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
Close InfoInfoReturnInstallation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
Photo: MAPCA
Installation view: A Singular Form, 2016. Secession, Vienna
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Photo: Oliver Ottenschlaeger
El Proceso y el Azar V, 2014
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Chipboard and melamine
Measures table set up: 74 x 210 x 84 cm
Unique

Woodcut (Modest imperative), 2013
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Xilography on paper, three parts.
Overall dimension: 134 x 282 x 7 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Untitled (Forcola) #5 – Untitled (Forcola) #2 , 2013
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Digital prints on cotton paper
Framed: 106,5 x 79,5 x 5 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, 2012, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Rotation (Moiré, Egin), 2012.
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Rotation (Moiré, Egin), 2012. (Detail)
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Rotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Rotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012. (Detail)
Close InfoInfoReturnRotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012. (Detail)
Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Sin título (Trama#4), 2012
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Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Sin título (Trama#4), 2012. (Detail)
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Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Point de capiton (Hodja), 2016
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Galvanized steel, inkjet print, PVC canvas, screws and magnets
140 x 100 x 56 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Illustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015
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Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Illustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015. (Detail)
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Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Das Ubekannte Spanien / España, tipos y trajes, 2012
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80 + 80 35 mm slide projection
Variable dimension
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Das Ubekannte Spanien / España, tipos y trajes, 2012. (Detail)
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80 + 80 35 mm slide projection
Variable dimension
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Not All that Moves is Red (Tangram) #3, 2012
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Sewn fabric
200 x 300 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Not All That Moves (Is Red), 2007
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Fabric, concrete and audio CD. Variable dimensions.
Unique
Exhibition view: Not All That Moves (Is Red), Artis den Bosch, The Netherlands, 2007

Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
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Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Auñamendi, 2006
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36 C-prints.
Framed: 31,5 x 42 cm each.
Ed. 3 + 1 AP.
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Know Your Rights, 2009
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Plasterboard and aluminium
55 x 260 x 240 cm
Unique
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Le Trou #2, 2009
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Tiles and styrofoam
90 x 60 x 25
Unique
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
The Staff That Matters (Six Steps), 2009
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Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
Unique

Figures and Prefigurations (Divers, B. Munari, 1935), 2010
Close InfoInfoReturnFigures and Prefigurations (Divers, B. Munari, 1935), 2010
Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
Unique

La Ruota Dentata, 2009
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Concrete and iron, 170 x 390 x 230 cm
Unique
Installation view: Koenraad Dedobbeleer/Asier Mendizabal, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2009

No Time For Love, 2000
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16mm b&w film loop projection, 16 mm projector, iron framework and PCV sheeting
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro

No Time For Love, 2000. (Detail)
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16mm b&w film loop projection, 16 mm projector, iron framework and PCV sheeting
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro

This Is The Way (Assemble), 2007
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Silkscreen. Framed, 70 x 50 cm each
Ed. 40 + 10 AP

Cinema, 1999
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PVC sheeting, board on wooden trestles, bottles of mineral water and glasses. Dimension variable
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro
Biography
Born in Ordizia, Guipuzkoa, Spain, 1973
Lives and works in Bilbao, Spain and Stockholm, Sweden.
Asier Mendizabal’s work pays most attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology and has been said to be related to the constructivist sculpture with its roots in the abstract utopia of the first decades of the 20th century. The question of the sign and its materiality and identification as a social and political emblem also has a place among the artist’s interests. Through sculpture, photography, video, textual or graphic works, Mendizabal gives a view on ideology based on the mise en scène of the concepts or structures shaped by it. The works by Mendizabal cannot be interpreted at first sight as they accumulate layers of meaning and sometimes refer to multiple ideas which are not of common knowledge. Whereas in some works a direct connotation in the recent history and reality of the Basque country can be read, in others he chooses referents which belong to historic or ideological legacies.
Selected Texts
- 2015Asier MendizabalDe trama y urdimbre, figura y fondo y otras analogías estructurales
- 2014Asier MendizabalWarp and Weft as Structural Metaphor
- 2010Caoimhín Mac Giolla LéithAsier Mendizabal
Exhibitions
- 12 November 2021 — 05 February 2022
- 16 November 2012 — 11 January 2013
- 25 March — 17 May 2017
- 01—28 February 2023
- 04 July — 29 August 2018
News
- 6 February — 12 December 2021
GROUP SHOW: Julia Stoschek collection, Berlin
- 22 February — 26 May 2019
GROUP SHOW: CENTROCENTRO, MADRID
- 12 April — 11 November 2018
GROUP SHOW, CARRÉ D’ART-MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, NÎMES